Checkpoint. 1994-08-23

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1994
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141806
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Year
1994
Reference
141806
Media type
Audio
Item unavailable online
Categories
Nonfiction radio programs
Radio news programs
Radio programs
Sound recordings
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RNZ Collection
National Radio (N.Z.) (estab. 1986, closed 2007), Broadcaster

MEAT MEETING: Workers from the collapsed meat processor Weddel New Zealand will discover on Thursday whether the company's six meat plants will re-open. Mark Torley
MEAT PARL: The Labour Opposition is drawing on all strings to try to get the Government to move in on the country's meat industry. Anna Hughes
MEATWORKS - REDUNDANCY: On Checkpoint yesterday Agriculture Minister John Falloon said redundancy agreements are part of the problem facing the freezing industry, but as Debra Harrington reports, thats being seen in some quarters as an excuse to try to make workers take the brunt of restructuring.
COMMONWEALTH GAMES: It's been a good day for New Zealand at the Victoria Commonwealth Games...with five medals so far. Charlotte Gendall
HEADS:
TODAY IN AUSTRALIA:
CUBA: The harsh reality of the tough new United States attitude to asylum-seekers from Cuba is hitting home to a large number of people who'd fled their communist-ruled homeland in recent days. Jonathan Schwass
SPORTS:
NEWS:
ELECTORAL: The Prime Minister joined the Alliance and New Zealand First today in calling for the provisional electoral boundaries to be released to the public. Bronwen Evans
RWANDA: Rwandan, Hutu refugees are fleeing into Zaire near Bukavu as the French pull out of their protection area in south west Rwanda. Jonathan Schwass
BOSNIA: Things are looking increasing bleak for the defiant Bosnian Serbs. Paul Adams - BBC
BUSINESS NEWS:
NEWS:
PESTICIDES: New Zealanders worried about high pesticide levels in their food can relax, according to a newly-released Ministry of Health survey. Shaleen Russell
WORLD UPDATE:
MANA NEWS:
TODAY IN PARLIAMENT:
FINAL HEADS: